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Green Again [Inscribed]

CURTIS, Jack (b. 1922) · 1951

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

Mexico City n.p. [Joaquin Ausiro, printer] Limited Edition Unnumbered review copy from an edition of 500 numbered copies. Foolscap 8vo (179 x 119mm): 196,[4]pp, with three hand-colored linoleum blocks (linocuts ) by Jose Paredes and Edward Owensby. Original illustrated stiff p...

Xylograf F. Hendriksen. Bibliografi. Med en Inledning om F. Hendriksen som Skribent [The Wood Engraver F. Hendriksen . . . with an Introduction on F. Hendriksen as a Writer]

[HENDRIKSEN, Frederik, 1847-1939]; Georg Krogh-Jensen & Johs Lehm Laursen · 1944

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,220)

København [Copenhagen] Forening for boghaandvaerk First Edition First and only printing of this bibliography and brief essay on wood engraver F. Hendriksen. Slim demy 8vo (211 x 139mm): 36,[2]pp, including four full-page plates. Publisher's light brown and sage green floral pa...

[Confederate] [Indian Wars] A Brief Sketch of the Life of a Confederate Soldier and the Ups and Downs during Pioneer and Indian Warfare in Texas [Rare Variant]

NICKELSON, B. C. (1826-1923) · 1928

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

Dallas, TX Stellmacher & Clark [Printers] Scarce survival of this sole edition, the far less common variant with "Ex-Confederate" in title. Copyright date is 1928 but author portrait is dated 1929. Crown 8vo (192 x 130mm): 16pp, with portrait frontispiece. Original grey paper ...

[Socialism] [Parable] Hop Lee and the Pelican [Two Editions]

WILSHIRE, Gaylord (1861-1927) · 1903

$349.00 (€316.64 | £264.17 | ¥55,731)

New York / Newark, N.J. Wilshire Book Company / Clarion Publishing Co. Two copies (First Separate Editions and apparently earliest iterations) of this parable, in which a Chinese fisherman discovers that he can out source the labor of fishing. Description of each copy follows....

Grosseteste 1966-1975. A Descriptive Catalogue

[GROSSETESTE PRESS] LONGVILLE, Jim; John & Carol Riley · 1975

$124.00 (€112.50 | £93.86 | ¥19,801)

[Pensnett, Staffordshire] printed by Tony Ward at the Arron Foundation, Lumb Bank, Yorkshire First Printing Only edition of this indispensable reference for collectors of the Grosseteste Press. Oblong foolscap 8vo (112 x 142mm): [62]pp. Original stitched Navy blue card covers,...

[Confederate] My Experience In The Confederate Army And In Northern Prisons, Written From Memory

KING, John R. (John Rufus, 1842-1936) · 1917

$326.00 (€295.78 | £246.76 | ¥52,058)

Clarksburg, W. Va. Stonewall Jackson Chapter, No. 1333, United Daughters of Confederacy First Edition of this reminiscence by and infantryman who served under Robert E. Lee. Demy 8vo (227 x 143): 52pp, with frontispiece portrait of the author. Original speckled mid-brown card ...

[Children's/Juvenile] America Begins: The Story of the Finding of the New World

DALGLIESH, Alice (18793-1979); Lois Maloy [illustrates] · 1938

$349.00 (€316.64 | £264.17 | ¥55,731)

New York Charles Scribner's Sons First Edition First Printing. Square demy 8vo (213 x 213mm): [78]pp, with numerous color and black-and-white full- and partial-page illustrations, including double-page world map. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards, tangerine end pape...

[La Guerre des boutons] The War of the Buttons [Review Copy]

PERGAUD, Louis (1882-1915) · 1968

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

New York Walker First Printing First Edition in English, describing the war between two gangs from rival villages, Longeverne and Velrans, in the countryside of Franche-Comté. Translated by Stanley and Eleanor Hochman. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 8vo (209 x 139m...

Rumour at Nightfall

GREENE, Graham (1904-1991) · 1932

$514.00 (€466.35 | £389.06 | ¥82,079)

New York Doubleday, Doran First American Edition First (and only) U.S. Printing of Greene's exceedingly scarce third novel, suppressed by him for being "of a badness beyond the power of criticism." Crown 8vo (190 x 131mm): [10],299,[1]pp. Publisher's red and black herringbone-...

[Juvenile] Noodle [Signed and with doodle]

LEAF, Munro (1905-1976); Ludwig Bemelmans, 1898-1962 [Illustrates] · 1938

$926.00 (€840.15 | £700.91 | ¥147,870)

New York Fredrick A. Stokes First Edition Inscribed Fourth Printing (so stated) of this important collaboration of two beloved children's book artists, Ludwig Bemelmans and Munro Leaf. Oblong royal 8vo (198 x 253mm): [52], including numerous full- and partial page color illust...

[Photobook] 24 Choice Photogravure Views of Bombay [Mumbai]

[THACKER & Co Ltd] · 1914

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

Bombay Thacker & Co Ltd Scarce album of original photographs of Bombay locales from the dawn of the twentieth century. Oblong crown 8vo (148 x 195mm): [48]pp, with 24 postcard-sized photographs, each titled to lower margin and mounted on heavy brown stock to obverse of each le...

[Photobook] The Word for Snow [Signed]

DELILLO, Don (b. 1936); Richard Prince (Illustrates) · 2014

$649.00 (€588.83 | £491.24 | ¥103,637)

New York Karma and Glenn Horowitz, Bookseller Limited Edition of this previously unpublished one-act play inspired by global climate change, with seven full-page color plates from photographs by Richard Prince, from his "Upstate" series. One of only 125 copies bound in cloth f...

[Exhibition Catalog] Catalogue of Modern Loan Exhibition. November, 1917 [with notes on the paintings by a contemporary visitor to the show].

[Grosvenor Gallery] · 0

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

London The Gallery Scarce catalogue of an exhibition, held November, 1917, at the Grosvenor Gallery, 51A New Bond Street, London, featuring works by Corot, Degas, Augustus John, Monet, Pissarro, Rodin, Rossetti, Sargent, Sickert, and Whistler, among others. Foolscap 8vo (151 x...

Program for Labor to Defeat Fascism [Turn Back the Attack of the Labor-Haters!]

[Independent Labor League] · 1943

$86.00 (€78.03 | £65.10 | ¥13,733)

Akron, Oh Independent Labor League Only edition of this full-throated left-wing program to advance labor interests, published in the midst of the Second World War and couched in strongly antifascist terms. Slim demy 8vo (207 x 151mm): 15,[1]pp, with two illustrations. Original...

Minnesota, its advantages to settlers. Being a brief synopsis of its history and progress, climate, soil, agricultural and manufacturing facilities, commercial capacities, and social status; its lakes, rivers and railroads; homestead and exemption laws; embracing a concise treatise on its climatology, in a hygienic and sanitary point of view; its unparalleled salubrity, growth and productiveness, as compared with the older states; and the elements of its future greatness and prosperity

HEWITT, Girart · 1869

$176.00 (€159.68 | £133.22 | ¥28,105)

St. Paul [Published by the state] for gratuitous circulation, by Girart Hewitt Third Edition (originally published in 1867) of this guidebook intended to attract settlers to the state. "Notice. This pamphlet, published in January of each year, (this being its third year) is de...

[Travel] [Angkor Wat] The Gentleman in the Parlour : A Record of a Journey From Rangoon to Haiphong [Unopened]

MAUGHAM, W[illiam]. Somerset (1874-1965) · 1930

$1,774.00 (€1,609.53 | £1,342.78 | ¥283,285)

London William Heinemann First Edition A superb First Impression (unread) of this account of a journey Maugham made in 1923 with his then lover, the Paris-born American Gerald Haxton (with Haxton's role discretely omitted). Demy 8vo (202 x 145): [4],276pp. Publisher's smooth b...

[Children's Literature] The Little Train

[GREENE, Graham, 1904-1991]; Dorothy Craigie (illustrates), 1901-1971 · 1946

$1,399.00 (€1,269.30 | £1,058.93 | ¥223,402)

London Eyre & Spottiswoode First Edition First Impression, second issue, with reviews on front flap (the first issue appeared in plain boards with plain buff dust jacket) of Greene's first children's book. Both issues are scarce and sought-after, and this is the more attractiv...

The Uncollected Stories of John Cheever 1930-1981 [Advance Reading Copy]; [together with] The Uncollected Stories of John Cheever 1930-1981 [Advance Excerpt] [and together with] Uncollecting Cheever: The Family of John Cheever vs. Academy Chicago Publishers

CHEEVER, John (1912-1982); Anita Miller (1926-2018) · 1988

$724.00 (€656.88 | £548.01 | ¥115,613)

Chicago Academy Chicago Publishers [through 1998] First Edition A trio of publications (Advance Reading Copy, Advance Excerpt, and First Printing), all unread and virtually pristine, documenting four years of litigation in state and federal courts that ended in a stop-publish ...

A Message for Genevieve. A Brief Story [Signed]

CALDWELL, Erskine (1903-1987) · 1933

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.94 | ¥67,707)

Mount Vernon, Maine [Privately Printed] at the Old Colony Press Limited Edition No. 71 of 100 copies signed by Caldwell on half-title page and by the illustrator, Alfred Morang, in pencil on frontispiece below image. Slim foolscap 8vo (170 x 102mm): [4],11,[1] pp. Staple-bound...

James Joyce: Books and Pamphlets Relating to the Author and His Works

SPOERRI, James F. (1899-1969) · 1955

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,220)

[Charlottesville, Va.] Bibliographic Society of the University of Virginia Book First Printing of this bibliography listing many James Joyce-related items absent from Slocum and Cahoon. Foolscap 8vo (171 x 122 mm): 16pp. Stapled self-wrappers printed in black, uncredited line ...